Holy crap! The temp just dropped 15 degrees in 5 minutes, the sky turned

[Redstone]

from sunny to black in the same time span, and it's snowing like an exploded pillow...

Wait...I'm looking to the west where this squall came from, and it's clear about half a mile away - wait one, please...

Damn, was THAT strange! I don't think I've ever seen a three-minute blizzard before! The sun is back out, and I can see the black disc of snow cloud moving off to the east...

Whoa. No weather like New England's

Redstone

[icymist]

1. Where are you at, Redstone?

eom

[DS1]

3. ARGHGHH!!!!

Where are you, Redstone? would have been just fine


where you at
where you at
where you at

:argh:

:banghead:

[Redstone]

12. Geez, you sound like the guy who ran into a shrink's office, shouting:

"I'm a teepee! I'm a wigwam!"

The psychiatrist replied, "Just sit down and relax. I know what your problem is. You're two tents."

Gotta let the odd superfluous "at" slide by once in a while.

The one that bugs me is "on a daily basis," which is a damn complicated way of saying "every day."

Redstone

[Shell Beau]

18. So you don't like for people to end their

sentences with prepositions, huh? :P

What is worse is when people say "between the A and the T" :)

[momophile]

19. a preposition joke

A guy walks into a bar and says to the bartender, "where's the bathroom at?" The bartender looks annoyed and says, "don't you know that you are not supposed to end a sentence with a preposition?" The guy replies, "okay, where's the bathroom at, as**ole?"

[Shell Beau]

20. LOL! I like it!

[bertha katzenengel]

21. DS1....

am i you?
are you me?
are we we?

:rofl:

[skygazer]

28. LOL, I'm the same way

That one drives me mad, for some reason. I have customers at work ask me where the bathroom is at all the time, or the bread or the bacon and I always have to bite my tongue to keep from correcting their grammar. :rofl:

I had a lady ask me "Where are you guys's cards at?" the other day and the combination of "guys's" and "at" just about made me implode. :nuke:

But I was polite and told her. O8)

[Redstone]

6. Southern Connecticut. Right where the CT River ends in Long Island Sound.

I'm used to having a lot of fog because of all that water, but that was just bizarre.

Redstone

[KitchenWitch]

2. Unless it is Minnesota's weather

mid 90s and Tornadoes one day, three days later 9 inches of snow.

[Err]

4. Heh

Ain't that the truth.

[Redstone]

8. I'll do without the tornadoes, thank you very much.

I'll go out in a blizzard just for the hell of it, and have enjoyed a couple of hurricanes, but damn if I want to mess with a twister.

Redstone

[KitchenWitch]

11. Ah you get tornadoes with hurricanes

I can handle the tornadoes, just keep me away from earthquakes.

[Redstone]

13. OK, we'll let someone else have the earthquakes; I don't need them either.

Oh, and the brush / forest fires. And the mudslides.

Think, just maybe, God didn't want all that many people living in California?

Redstone

[icymist]

5. My thoughts too.... Redstone, get a weather radio.

Watch the sky. Look out for movement that is never like you've seen before.... clouds moving in all four directions. If there is a calm with a sickly green to it, TAKE COVER! Again, listen to weather radio, NOAA if you can get it.

[Redstone]

7. I do usally check the Doppler radar a few times a day, but didn't today.

Thanks for the advice; we're not in a tornado area. I've seen those monstrous thunderstorms out in the Midwest, but never a tornado. And as much as I enjoy Big Weather, I'd just as soon NEVER see a tornado.

Redstone

[icymist]

9. I grew up in Ohio and lived in Illinois a while.

We used to camp out in the mountains of PA. I never thought a tornado would react way up north like this, but in 1984, it did, and completely wiped away towns I knew when growing up. Tornadoes in the North are rare, but when they strike, it's with a furiousness I fear! And that's talk from someone who's been in a few tornadoes.

[Redstone]

10. Yeah, there was one in CT in 1979, just before I moved here.

And another about 10 years ago that ripped up the apartment where I lived for a few months after moving here (shudder).

Believe me, I see any green sky, I'm hitting the dirt. Not even taking time to grab the camera, no.

Redstone

[icymist]

14. Yup! You got it!

And it's not just the sky that turns that sickly green, but all the vegetation. There is also such a sound of silence that I just cannot describe. It's almost like being in a vacuum, but still some sounds are audible.

[Redstone]

15. I've been in an unpressurized airplane caught in an updraft, so I think

I know the feeling of the pressure dropping like that. I bet it's damned odd to feel at ground level.

Redstone

[icymist]

16. It can also be tricky, too

I can't explain it. Weather can be really weird. A story my father used to tell me about how to outrun a tornado: 'Run down a street until you come to a complete stop with the roads leading away from your point going left or right. Take one and hope the tornado takes the other!' ... Oh something like that. Anyway, the gist to outrun a tornado is to see that it coming at you and then turn, either left or right, and hope the tornado goes the other way!

Real advice, huh? That's the best my Dad can give me here. He lives in Springfield, Illinois. One day when I was growing up, we had tornado warnings on NOAA and my dad got up from the kitchen table, looked out the back door, said "I don't see no damb tornado!" went to the fridge and got himself a cold beer and sat down at the table!

We never did have a tornado that day. So IMO, there's a lot to judging the weather to your gut instinct.

Hows that for an explanation?

[LynzM]

17. Dude! I saw that!

Totally wild. Your description is perfect... wild. From sunny, to black and snowing, to sunny again! Wheeee! :bounce:

You guys still planning on coming tomorrow?

[Redstone]

22. Oh, yes, we'll be there.

Looking forward to it.

Should we bring anything else besides the birthday present?

Redstone

[LynzM]

23. Yay!

:bounce: Just bringing your own selves ought to be good! I'm just trying to round up a head count. The lack of RSVP attention drives me crazy... but it ought to be a big enough crowd for our house!

[Redstone]

24. Oh; I thought I replied in the affirmative via PM, but may not have

because I forget things.

But I did remember to write it on our kitchen calendar.

You guys are right downtown, yes? Left or right turn after we cross the Frog Bridge coming north on 32?

Redstone

[icymist]

25. Hmmm. I miss something here?

Anyway, Redstone, now you know what it's like, or at least a description, of being in a tornado. Hope you never know one.
Icy

[LynzM]

26. You actually don't have to cross the frog bridge :)

Our road is on the left before you get to the bridge; it's a one-way street at that end. Give me a call if you can't find it!

[ScreamingMeemie]

27. That happened here in Michigan yesterday....These 3-5 minutes

mega whiteouts...and then sunshine and then snow...then sunshine. Here on the lake it was wild. :hi: